Cassie Peters is a pregnant teenager who plans to give her baby up for adoption when no one, including her mother and the baby's father, Craig, will take care of it. But after the birth, while Monica is there the whole time in the form of a nurse, Cassie changes her mind and decides to run away with her baby to have a life of her own. But what Cassie doesn't know is that her baby is deathly ill and if she doesn't get it to a doctor soon it may die. Monica tries her hardest, and eventually convinces Cassie to take her baby to the doctor, but is it too late?